eh eh thanks... there is so much to learn in this life! Great :) On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:11:27 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote / a ?crit: > > Thanks for the informations, I managed to find an easy way to look in > > the big "man bash" :) > > hmm.. you know that you can search in a man page? type /show[enter] > and it will look first the first instance of the word show. > type /[enter], and it will look for the next instance. voila :-) > > > > so I found a bash.1.gz, I un-gzip-ed it, launched a > > grep show bash.1 -n > > zgrep would have worked nicely, and you could have kept to file > compressed. see also zless, zcat. > > hope this tricks come in handy. > > maarten > > ----------------------------------------------- #219055 http://counter.li.org ----------------------------------------------- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/guy.clotilde/index.html ----------------------------------------------- Change your Linux PC in a Rythm Station with holborn's GMORGAN: http://gmorgan.sf.net -----------------------------------------------